It’s getting worse!
Now they want us to believe that SA passports are being replaced by SADC passports, and a region-specific currency too. As if!
Excuse me sir, are you carrying illegal isotopes?
"Vehicle goes by at 70 miles per hour," Giuliano told the crowd. "Agent is in the median, a good 80 feet away from the traffic. Signal went off and identified an isotope [in the passing car]."
Spot the mistake …
Uptime
18:53:53 up 111 days, 41 min, 1 user, load average: 0.55, 0.46, 0.45
Bandwidth usage
And to think I was worried …
SA mines instructed to shut down for up to six weeks
Johannesburg – South Africa's gold mines, and mining companies in other sectors, were instructed last night by electricity utility Eskom to shut their mines, possibly for up to between two and six weeks.
“Power cuts enrage South Africans”
(Source: see related link)
My new box in the UK
21:13:30 up 66 days, 3:01, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.63, 0.60
ShutOff 2000
Having lost all but one version of the source code for ShutOff 2000, I re-released it today, ten days early, as a point release (2.8.3). 2.8.2 fixed a problem with date formats across different timezones, so I just re-applied those changes to the 2.8.1 code-base, plus a couple of other minor enhancements.
Going wireless
Sentech, Linksys, Airport. We're wireless, baby. Now if only I can get my WLAN card to work on my PC, we could lose the switch too.